THE COLONIAL FORCES.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1919, Page 5

THE COLONIAL FORCES.

WHAT THEY DID IN PALESTINE, GENERAL ALLENBY'S OVERSIGHT,' WAS IT INTENTIONAL! i By Toleeropli —Press Aun.—f-opTTlght i. ! Received Sept 19, 8.10 p.in, Sydney, Sept. 19Mr. Harry Gullett, official correipondent with the Australian Ffltee in Palestine, writes to the newspaper Sim with reference to the recent statement . by General Allenby that his army wai * cosmopolitan, mentioning the various., nationalities, including New Zealandert, but failing to mention the Austi^tiani,-' and adding: "Towards the close of campaign two-thirds of the army nn ■ Mahommedans" Mr. Gullet says the Sun's gngguttan of the omission of the Australians wai an unintentional slip. The paptr may; be right, but he doubts it. The omission/ v he says, is characteristic of General Al- . lenby's attitude towards the Light Horn.' Without the Australians and New Zealanders, Palestine would never hare been won. Nobody knows this botter than General Allenbv and General Mur> ray, but neither of them is big enough to forgive the Australians and New Zealanders their relative Blackness in ceremonial discipline, although in almost « every fight they gambled on th» Anxae fire and discipline to carry them through, and it did. The correspondent gives instaaoM of ' the proof of General AUenb/s failure to recognise the work of the Australian! ■ and New Zealanders, and of tho British truckling to the Moslem, which, he declares, was carried to stupid extremes, and claims that with the exoeptioa of the British, the Australians and New ; Zealanders, the other nationalities men* tiohed by General Allenby took an insignificant part in the campaign. Mr. Gullet describes the Arab M on* of the most cowardly and cruel {khUn who ever made a pretence of gowg to war. He says the magnificent »ew Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade would clean up all Arabia, provided the, Arabs would come near enough to fteht, and concludes: "The Australian* new »o defence. Time and impartial military students will probably estimate tba part they and the New Zealanders played in the overthrow of Turkey, and the conquest of Palestine " —Aus-N.Z. Cable Assn.